Not exact matches
Spanning nine U.S. cities over 11 weekends, the interactive scavenger hunts had campers (ages 18 and older) collecting items at nightmare scenarios like
sacrificial voodoo
rituals and blood baths,
with the winner crowned «Hellmaster.»
This is a
sacrificial meal, a
ritual meal, in which we enjoy communion
with God.
With the ancient altars no longer standing, with the sacrificial cultus interpreted as a mere foreshadowing of the access to God that Christians spiritually enjoyed, with the growing rituals of the new churches still plastic and unformed, personal prayer became the typical method of divine fellows
With the ancient altars no longer standing,
with the sacrificial cultus interpreted as a mere foreshadowing of the access to God that Christians spiritually enjoyed, with the growing rituals of the new churches still plastic and unformed, personal prayer became the typical method of divine fellows
with the
sacrificial cultus interpreted as a mere foreshadowing of the access to God that Christians spiritually enjoyed,
with the growing rituals of the new churches still plastic and unformed, personal prayer became the typical method of divine fellows
with the growing
rituals of the new churches still plastic and unformed, personal prayer became the typical method of divine fellowship.
Intimate, interior, spiritual communion
with God flourished in association
with the temple
ritual; it found there encouragement and inspiration; it even used the
sacrificial system as a trellis to grow upon.
When, therefore, the wide ranges of the Psalter associated
with the services and sacrifices of the temple are taken into account, the progressive spiritualizing of the
sacrificial ritual becomes evident.
The chief ancient
ritual of intercourse
with the unseen world was sacrifice, and in her earliest traditions,
sacrificial practices of some kind were assumed as a matter of course.
It is unclear how much was engraved upon the tablets and how much was simply dictated to him; but, in any event, all the laws, all the
ritual and the various
sacrificial offerings, all the directions for the construction of the Tabernacle and the fabrication of the vestments and adornments originated
with Yahweh.
By letting us shed His blood, Jesus revealed that all such scapegoating
sacrificial rituals have nothing whatsoever to do
with God and originate instead within the hearts of mankind.
Much of the Old Testament is filled
with blood, whether it is the blood spilled in the
sacrificial rituals of the Mosaic Law or the blood spilled during Canaanite Conquest and subsequent wars of Israel.
Back of more sophisticated meanings, which later were seen in the temple sacrifices, and more rarefied interpretations of the effect of
ritual offerings on Yahweh, was the idea of the communal meal where deity and people shared the same feast and the god of the tribe enjoyed
with his devotees their
sacrificial food.